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The Corporate Asylum
Satire and Commentary for Discerning Employees

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Contents: Essays, Fiction, Book Reviews, Poetry, Cartoons, Thoughts, Interviews, Rants and Raves, The Taradiddle Award, Articles from The Inmate(the paper), The Inmate's Journal, Notes from The Asylum
I read The Corporate Asylum during my childhood.  I finally met The Inmate when I was a young man of 20 and soon after that he became by mentor.  He is the originator of my philosophical method.  I am deeply indebted to him.
Socrates

Essays(in the order they have appeared, beginning with the most recent)

Re: My Liberation
Re: Layoffs
Re: In Defense of The Matrix Reloaded
A Memo of Monumental Unimportance
On the Real End of War
On the End of War
Re: The Pleasures of Woodworking
Corporate America:  Reflections from the Bottom of the Totem Pole
Re: Engineers, Technocrats and Common Sense
Re: On Being Weak
Re: Exempt Employees Fight Back?
Re: Memo to All Management Staff at The Corporate Asylum
Re: Corporate Scatology
Re: What?  Me, Worry?
Re: Response to The American Prospect Book Review
Re: Work, Meaning and the Corporation: A Dialogue about Work
Re: Escape?
Re: A Suitcase, 1967,  and Fate
Re: The Hellevator
Re: The Corporate Asylum Survey:  VIEWPOINT 2000
Re: A Case for Incompetence
Re: The Local News
Re: Veterans and Rookies
Re: Sweatshops
Re: Management Speeches: Some Advice
Re: Leave Us Alone
Re: The Medical Profession and Corporate Culture
Re: The Past Year(1999-2000)
Re: Interviews and First Dates
Re: Jobs: Fear or Uncertainty?
Re: Job Hunting
Re: A Passion for Mediocrity
Re: Star Trek, Inc.
Re: Corporate Clichés
Re: Human Resources(of the corporate kind)
Re: Toilet Seats and Rest Rooms
Re: Resignation Letters
Re: Advertising
Re: I'm Nobody.  Who Are You?
Re: In Praise of No
Re: The Proper Use of Profanity
Re: Employee Involvement
Re: Have You Been at Your Job Too Long?
Re: Fatigue Vaccines
Re: Ambition
Re: Acceptance Speeches

Fiction
 

Short Stories

How People Can Be
Looking for Sophia Williams
The Wager
The Trash Man Cometh
The Elevator

Misc.

Re: More Information on 20th Century CEOs
Re: 20th Century C.E.O.'s Speech
Re: My Travels Through Time and Space
Re: The Existence of CEO's
Re: The Management Strike
Re: The Efficiency Experts


Book Reviews

Fat and Mean by David Gordon
Good Business by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Work to Live by Joe Robinson
I Don't Know How She Does Itby Allison Pearson
The Importance of Living  by Lin Yutang
Leisure, the Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper

Poetry

A Not so Divine Comedy
Re: Workers(The Charge of the Worker's Brigade)

Cartoons

Department of Redundancy Department
Purposeful Peeing / The Conference Rest Room

Quotations

Current Quotation

March 19, 2000-March 24, 2003: Featuring Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Henri Michaux, John Cougar Mellencamp, Robertino Rodrigues, age 17, Victor Mansfield, The Inmate, Wendell Berry, John Steinbeck, John Irving, John Kennedy Toole, H.G. Wells, Richard P. Feynman, Ray Bradbury, Mary Shelley,  Hilaire Belloc, Ralph Ellison, Henry David Thoreau(twice), Kate Chopin, William Goldman, Bette Bao Lord, Joseph Conrad

September 26, 1999-March 11, 2000:Featuring John Kennedy Toole, Mark Twain, Hermann Hesse, Michael Moore, George Orwell, Josef Pieper, Bertrand Russell, Frederick Douglass, Oliver Goldsmith, Owen Felltham, Thomas Carlyle, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Merton, David Whyte, Carl Sandburg, Solomon, Victor Mansfield and The Inmate.

April 4-September 19, 1999:Featuring Wilson Sloan, Michael Grant, The Inmate, Stanislaw Lem, Sebastian De Grazia, Gordon MacKenzie, Aristotle, Thomas Merton, Alexis de Touqueville, Earl Wantland former President of Tektronix, Roy Schmidt, Eric Hoffer, Daniel Boorstein, Louis Adamic, Miguel de Unamuno, Thomas Moore, John Stuart Mill, John Brown, Norman Maclean, German Military Folklore and William James.

Interviews

Re: An Interview with Karl Marx

Rants & Raves

The Ex-Salt Miner, The Escaped Inmate, The Prisoner of Suburbia, The Rugged Individualist

The Taradiddle Award

Taradiddle #1/NBC
Taradiddle #2/Sports Illustrated, Time, Inc. and Elizabeth Matthews.
Taradiddle #3/ The Wardens at The San Diego Union -Tribune
Taradiddle #4/City of San Diego, Parking Division and to Officer Saucedo
Taradiddle #5/The Ford Motor Company
Taradiddle #6/Washington Mutual

Articles from The Inmate(The Underground Paper that started it all)

The Drive to Discover We Drive to Deliver Packages Worth More Than . . .
Non-Entities

The Inmate's Journal

April 2-July 3, 1999
August 19-December 1, 1999
December 4, 1999-February 4, 2000
February 11-May 6, 2000

Notes from The Asylum(click here)

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